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Set your watch, mark it on the calendar, do whatever you need to do.The Jul – Dec 2017 range launch is coming soon! pic.twitter.com/m9HpspwrNv — Corgi (@corgi) June 16, 2017 If this was on the John Lambert blog, that clown would be getting all giddy over the forthcoming releases this week. Thankfully, he doesn’t really…

Oh dear, oh dear……… OK, I am a little late to the party on this one, but it is time to cast my musings on the latest Vanguards releases for 2017. I have mentioned before that I used to look forward with much anticipation with the releases for the year, but as of late, this…

This year I have about 4-5 projects going on at the moment that I wanted to share with you. Nothing big, but should keep me occupied for the next 12 months: 1) Matchbox1-75.co.uk I am no longer interested in Matchbox and have been totally out of the loop in 2015. Hence my first website is…

FFS. I have written about this before, but the same shit seems to be happening now for the last 2-3 years. Hornby have recently released the first half of the Vanguards range for 2016 – and once again, what a total disappointment it is. Within the 2016 releases I see nothing but a bunch of…

Some readers may know that I have maintained a Corgi Vanguards FB page. The initial aim was to fully document all the Vanguards releases that have been released over time and chart them via a website – from Lledo to Corgi. The intention was there, but I never got around to coding the damn thing.…

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…………… There was a time when I really looked forward to the release of the Corgi Vanguards, but it seems that things are going from bad to worse. No new castings. Re-issues of existing with different colour schemes. Irrelevant models (BMW E30). Are Corgi really trying to loose as many…

So we now have confirmation of the Vanguards releases for 2015. At one stage this was a firm favourite of mine looking at the website and seeing what goodies were going to be available for me over the first 6 months of the year. How different a situation it is for 2015…….. VA10107 Triumph Stag…

So there are normally a lot of complaints about Corgi on the production of their models of late – for a £23 model some of the detail and quality has been pretty crap. You just have to look at some of the MkIV Cortina’s and the MkIII Capri – I have blogged about these before.…

Corgi – by many a collector – have been hitting bad times. There have been a spate of cancellations and some rubbish castings – no one wanted the E30 BMW, yet this was deemed as part of British Motoring Heritage?? Matchbox had the right idea under Tyco ownership and produced the 2nd Gen Astra GT/E…

So I blogged recently about the Miami Blue 309GTi by the Corgi Vanguards range which I got recently, I thought it would be a good opportunity to get both the 309’s I have side by side. Many people moan about these inclusion to the Vanguards range, but I think that they are worthy. And a…